A review by meganpbell
The Rooster House: A Ukrainian Family Story by Victoria Belim

dark emotional hopeful informative mysterious reflective medium-paced

4.5

"...when they aren't told, the stories of painful events turn into black holes…The traumas can't be seen, but the gravity surrounding them becomes so strong that it absorbs everything in their proximity." In this memoir, a writer returns to Ukraine in the wake of the Crimean invasion, uncovers a family mystery, faces her father’s death, reconciles with family, and grapples with Ukraine’s tragic history and the scars it’s left on her family tree.
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